31 December 1954, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Sylvia Bodorová Official Website
Works for Brass Quintet
- Vertumnus – Five Pictures from Emperor Rudolph’s Prague (2004) for brass quintet
Wiki Category: Women Composers
Bodenstein-Hoyme, Ruth
13 March 1924, Wurzen – 11 January 2006, Dresden
German composer and educator
Works for Brass Quintet
- Brass Quintet (2001)
Bingham, Judith
21 June, 1952, Nottingham, England
English composer and mezzo soprano
Works for Brass Ensemble
- Dream of the Past (1993) for brass quintet
Biography
Judith Bingham attended the Royal Academy of Music, where her teachers were Malcolm MacDonald, Eric Fenby, Alan Bush and John Hall (composition), and Jean Austin-Dobson (singing). After leaving, she continued her composition studies privately with Hans Keller. She is a Fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music.
in 2020, Bingham was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
Bernofsky, Lauren
25 September 1967, Rochester, MN
American composer
Works for Brass Ensemble
- Passacaglia (1990) for brass quintet
- The Duxbury Fanfare (1997) for brass quintet
- Suite for Brass Quintet (1993) for brass quintet
- Fanfare (2001) for brass quintet
- Musica Solaris (2001) for brass quintet
- Haubrich Suite (2019) for brass sextet
Biography
Composer Lauren Bernofsky‘s catalog includes solo, chamber and choral music as well as larger-scale works for orchestra, film, musical, opera, and ballet. Her music has been performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, Greece, Iceland, Kenya, and South Africa.
Inspired by the expressive potential of each instrument, her distinctive language speaks both to musical history and the present day. The artistry of her orchestration grew out of her doctoral studies with master composer Lukas Foss. She holds degrees from the Hartt School, New England Conservatory, and Boston University. Her philosophy of composition is simple: music should be a joy both to play and to hear.
Her works have been commissioned by the Harford Ballet, the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, the Delmar Trio, Jeffrey Curnow (Philadelphia Orchestra), and many others. Winner of the National Flute Association’s Newly Published Music Competition for her Sonatine, her earlier awards include the Contempo Festival OPERA PUPPETS Mainstage Award and grants from the American Music Center, American Composers Forum, and National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts. Her trumpet concerto is frequently performed as audition and recital repertoire both in the United States and abroad.
Her music has been heard at Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Rathaus, Tanglewood, the International Trumpet Guild Conference, the National Flute Associaton Conference, the Midwest Clinic, Banff, the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival, and the Spanish Brass Alzira Festival. Performances by the Atlanta Symphony, Boston Symphony Chamber Players, and by members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and many others. Her works are published by Boosey & Hawkes, The FJH Music Company, Balquhidder Music, Fatrock Ink, Hal Leonard, Grand Mesa Music, Alfred Music, Wingert-Jones, Carl Fischer, and Theodore Presser.
Lauren Bernofsky’s works can be heard on the Polarfonia, Albany, Music to My Ears, Blue Griffin, MSR Classics, and Emeritus labels.
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Bellamy, Marian Meredith
17 March 1927 – 19 February 2013, Woodbury New Jersey
American composer and pianist
Works for Brass Quintet
- Three Offices (1973)
Bauckholt, Carola
b. 1959 – German composer
- Three Movements for Brass Quintet (1989)
Biography
After working at the Theater am Marienplatz (TAM), Krefeld for several years, Carola Bauckholt studied composition at the Musikhochschule Köln with Mauricio Kagel (1978 – 1984). She founded the Thürmchen Verlag (music publisher) along with Caspar Johannes Walter in 1985, and six years later they founded the Thürmchen Ensemble.
She has received numerous residencies and prizes such as the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Scholarship from the city of Cologne (1986), a residency at the Villa Massimo in Rome (1997), in 1998 she was designated the Artist of the Year by the State of North Rhine Westphalia, and she was selected to represent Germany at the World Music Days in Mexico City 1992, Copenhagen 1996, Seoul 1997 and in Zurich 2004. She was awarded the German Composers Prize from the GEMA in the category of experimental music in 2010. From London International Animation Festival 2019 she received the “Best Sound Design Award” for “The Flounder” in collaboration with Elizabeth Hobbs and Klangforum Wien. For 2021 she has been invited to a three-month stay at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.
She teaches as guest professor in Santiago di Chile (2010), Ostrava Tschechische Republik (2011 and 2013), Amsterdam (2012 and 2014), Krakau (2012), Zürich (2012), Apeldoorn (2013), Kiev (2013) Oslo (2014 and 2015), Mexico City (2014), Monterrey (2015), London (2015), Moskau and Tschaikovsky City (2016), Valencia (2018), Barcelona (2018 und 2021), Bludenz (2018, 2019), Haifa (2019) Chicago (2019), Luxembourg (2020), Graz (2021) and in Germany.
In 2013, she was elected as a member of Akademie der Künste in Berlin, from November 2021 on as the director of the music section. In 2015, she was appointed as professor of composition with focus on contemporary music theatre at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in Linz, Austria. In 2020, she was elected as a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.
A central theme of Bauckholt’s work is the examination of the phenomena of perception and understanding. Her compositions often blur the boundaries between visual arts, musical theater and concert music. She is especially fond of using noisy sounds, which are often produced by unconventional means (such as extended instrumental techniques or bringing everyday objects to the concert hall). It is important to note that these noises are not just part of some kind of a predetermined compositional structure, but rather they are carefully studied and left free to unfold and develop at their own pace lending the compositions their own unique rhythm.
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Barnett, Carol
b. 1949, American composer
- Mysterious Brass Band (1990)
Biography
Carol Barnett creates audacious and engaging music, both for traditional instrumentation, and for cross-pollinations such as a mass accompanied by a bluegrass band or a duet for steel pan and organ. A force in the Minnesota music scene since 1970, her work has been funded by multiple regional and national organizations, and published through major houses. Carol is a charter member of the American Composers Forum and a graduate of the University of Minnesota. She was composer in residence with the Dale Warland Singers from 1992 to 2001, and taught composition at Augsburg College from 2000 to 2015.
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Baiocchi, Regina
16 July 1956, Chicago, IL
American composer, musician, educator, and author
Works for Brass
- QFX (1993) for brass quintet
Biography
Regina Baiocchi‘s music has been performed by the Detroit Symphony, Chicago Symphony, US Army Band, Seattle Philharmonic, Southeast Symphony orchestras and other internationally acclaimed artists. Performances include concerts in Rome, Paris and Bari, as part of Festival Incontri Musicali di Musica Sacra; in Köln and Unna, Germany at the Women Composers’ Library; and in Turkey.
Regina is the subject of articles in New Grove Dictionary of American Music, Oxford University Press’s Black Women in America, International Dictionary of Black Composers, cover profile of Spirituals to Symphonies: Music by Black Women Composers, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Reader, Chicago Daily Defender, Hyde Park Herald and the South Loop Journal.
Regina has written orchestral music, libretto and one-act opera, hand drum concerto, marimba concerto, ballet, chamber music, liturgical and secular music, vocal and instrumental music. Recordings include her piano etudes, “Equipoise by Intersection” on the Kaleidoscope CD; a work song,
“Legend of John Henry” (from her ballet) recorded by baritone, Robert Sims on Soul of a Singer CD; Kidstuff, her compositions for children; 6-song cycle, “e. e. cummings songbook” on Eileen Stremple’s unto to thee i sing CD; and 3 opera arias on Lifescapes CD by Rae-Myra Hilliard.
Regina wrote articles on Women Composers and Musicologists, Spirituals, Jazz, Gospel Music, Hip-Hop, Black Arts Movement and Poetry for Oxford University Press Encyclopedia Black Women in America (music, education). Her poetry and prose appear in Chicago Tribune Magazine, AIM Magazine, ESI Anthology, Technology News and Gwendolyn Brooks and Working Writers. She is featured at HistoryMakers.com and Answers.com.
Regina’s compositions and papers are stored at Amistad Research Center (Tulane University), Center for Black Music Research (Columbia College Chicago) and Vivian Harsh Repository (Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional branch). Regina taught at Chicago City Colleges, Columbia College; Dominican, Northwestern and Wayne State universities.
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Bacon, Alexis
USA
American composer, pianist, violist, and educator
Works for Brass Ensemble
- Capriccio (2013) for brass quintet
Biography
Alexis Bacon is a composer recognized nationally and internationally for her acoustic and electroacoustic music, having won awards such as the IAWM Search for New Music Pauline Oliveros Prize, the Ossia International Composition Prize, and the ASCAP/SEAMUS student composition commission. She has also received grants and awards from the Indiana Arts Council, the Percussive Arts Society, the American Music Center, and ASCAP, and commissions from artists including Due East, the Bro-Fowler Duo, violinist Robert Simonds, and multiple consortiums comprising over fifty musicians headed by Duo Corcra, percussionist Brad Meyer, and saxophonist Wilson Poffenberger. In recent years her works have been featured at festivals including the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, SEAMUS, the International Society of Double Reeds Conference, the Florida State University Festival of New Music, the American Viola Society Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, the College Music Society National Conference, the Indiana State University Contemporary Music Festival, and several North American Saxophone Alliance conferences.
Alexis Bacon began her composition studies at Rice University, where she completed her Bachelors degree in both music composition and viola performance, subsequently traveling to France as a Fulbright scholar where she studied composition with Betsy Jolas. She then completed her graduate studies in music composition at the University of Michigan where she studied with William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty, Evan Chambers, and Susan Botti. She has taught at University of Michigan, West Texas A&M University, Indiana State University, and the University of Indianapolis, and is currently Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Michigan State University. She spends her summers teaching electronic music at Interlochen Arts Camp. Skilled as both a violist and pianist, she remains active as a performer.
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Baas, Danielle
1958, Belgium
Belgian composer
Works for Brass Ensemble
- Anachromes, Opus 79 (1984) for brass quintet
- Things of Spirit, Opus 109 for brass quintet
Biography
After her childhood in Africa, Danielle Baas attended the Jette’s school of music and carried on her studies at the Brussels’ Royal Academy of Music. Always fascinated by creating, she won a fourth prize at an international composition contest in the USA in 1997, as well as a composition contest for carillon.
In 2003, her work Oppression for solo piano was chosen in China for a concert in Pekin (composition competition), and the Brazilian guitarist Arnaldo Freire honored her by commissioning her a creation for guitar and string orchestra. This work was chosen in 2007 for a Women Festival in Pekin. Member of honor in Serbia for works for children’s piano. Recording of children’s work in 3 levels by Pilar Valero in Spain. Her works have been performed in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Bosnia, Serbia, Spain, Germany, Tunisia, Bulgaria, China, Switzerland, Brazil and the USA.
Danielle Baas collaborates with several authors, among which the French poetess Marie-Claude Jaslet-Guézec, Linda Rimel, an American poetess, Benoît Coppée, a Belgian poet and writer, and Nicolas Gianniodis, a poet of Greek origin.
In 2001 she created the Mikrokosmos Ensemble, a group of musicians with variable geometry, aimed at promoting the creating of Belgian works and broadcasting the Belgian music abroad. In 2004, the Ensemble receives the Fuga Award for the promotion of Belgian Musical Repertory. In 2005, she organizes a Belgian Contemporary Music festival, chamber music concerts in presence of the composers, the Festival Emergence.